PBworks is an online tool for collaboration and project management. It has a very simple webhook mechanism which can be used to integrate it with AlertGrid with two simple steps.

Step 1: Log in to your PBworks account and enter one of your workspaces. Go to settings, then to developer Interface

Step 2:Enter the webhook URL. It is:

http://hq.alert-grid.com/save-signal/?api_id=YOUR_API_ID&receiver_name=YOUR_RECEIVER

Of  course you need to replace the api id and receiver name with real values from your AlertGrid account.

When you click Save – it’s done! You have just integrated your pbworks workspace with AlertGrid. Now, AlertGrid will receive signals whenever something happens in your pbworks workspace. Let’s have a look at the structure of the signal received from pbworks:

The most important parameters are op (operation, i.e. what happened), page (where it happened), name & email (who did this) and wiki (apparently, this is workspace name). In fact pbworks must have documented it all somewhere on their page. Anyway, knowing this all, you can easily react to different events by building workflows and get instant notifications (not only by email but also by SMS & phone!) when something very specific happens. For example, when a user whose email ends with gmail.com modifies a sidebar in one of your workspaces:

Is it useful? Well, it’s entirely up to you, AlertGrid offers nice notification mechanisms out of the box and a flexible rule editor, you might find it very useful if notification system built into pbworks is not suitable for you and you want greater control and other notification channels (SMS, phone). Have fun!